NFI Parts™, the parts subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (“NFI”), one of the world’s leading independent bus manufacturers, has received an order from Barons Bus for 51 UV Light Kits to be installed on their entire fleet of MCI J4500 motorcoaches. NFI Parts’ UV Lighting system works to reduce bacteria, viruses and mold in the […]
The Engineering Department at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has begun installing face mask and hand sanitizer dispensers on all buses, light rail vehicles and streetcars. DART plans to have dispensers available to assist customers on each of their more than 600 buses, 160 light rail vehicles and four Dallas streetcars by the end of […]
ETA Transit Systems is pleased to announce the addition of Michael Gnerre to its team. Gnerre will inform business development strategies, improve customer engagement, and expand market awareness of ETA and its cutting-edge intelligent transit system (ITS), SPOT™. Gnerre brings over 40 years of hard-earned mass transit experience to ETA Transit. His is a wealth […]
The American Bus Association Foundation – the largest non-profit organization in the group travel industry, with an emphasis on research and scholarships – released its second quarter 2020 Motorcoach Builder Survey. Based on surveys of the major motorcoach manufacturers that sell vehicles in the United States and Canada, motorcoach sales from the participating manufacturers saw […]
Complete Coach Works (CCW) is at the midway point of a project with Long Beach Transit (LBT) to perform a mid-life rehabilitation on (72) 2012, 2013, 2015 Gillig buses. The project includes a cosmetic rehabilitation and engine replacement. The 40-foot-long buses are being repowered with the new Cummins L9N CNG “Near Zero” engines. The newer […]
Motor Coach Industries (MCI), a U.S. subsidiary of NFI Group Inc., (“NFI”), one of the world’s largest independent global bus manufacturers, delivered two new MCI J4500 coaches to United House of Prayer for All People. The church, under the leadership of the Honorable Bishop C. M. Bailey and now marking its 100th anniversary, is headquartered […]
US Ignite today announces the selection of First Transit, in partnership with Perrone Robotics, as the autonomous vehicle (AV) shuttle provider for the Fort Carson, Colorado, Smart Transportation Testbed, a project funded and managed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). First Transit will deliver and operate two Polaris GEM autonomous shuttles […]
Complete Coach Works (CCW) announced today it has made the final delivery to Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (Santa Cruz). The contract, which calls for the rehabilitation of four buses, was awarded late last year. The work on the first two buses included repowering them from ISL engines to Cummins ISL-G Recon engines. The other […]
EnerDel, Inc. a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion battery packs, today announced that they have extended their distribution channel through a new agreement with Complete Coach Works (CCW) to provide EnerDel’s PP320-738-LP. This partnership enables Complete Coach Works the rights to distribute EnerDel’s PP320-738-LP installed in diesel-hybrid buses for the State of California. “EnerDel has considered […]
A new public transit option, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), could soon be coming to Phoenix, Arizona, and the Phoenix Public Transit Department is inviting citizens to check out a newly-created video and virtual meeting at phoenix.gov/brt to learn all about it. BRT, one of the high-capacity transit components of the voter-approved Transportation 2050 (T2050) program, […]